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    Toronto 898 Broadview Avenue | 20.31m | 6s | REVE DVMT | QBS Architects Inc

    As someone who currently lives in a modern 4 story building with 1 elevator (and 20 units), I can say anecdotally adding a 2nd elevator to a building of this size makes it completely uneconomical. And if it's not economical it won't get built and won't be accessible to anyone. In my building...
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    Toronto Bike Share

    It's been like this for a couple weeks now, slim pickings every day. For some reason the Chester bike station (Arundel) has had 10 or so e-bikes docked there out of power for a bout a month now.
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    Leslieville / Studio District

    Tim Hortons is moving into the location where this nice mural was (mural has been removed. Sad.) Replacing a Cannabis shop.
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    Toronto Crosstown LRT: Leaside Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | IBI Group

    From the outside looking in, I'm guessing that the steps did not meet building standards. ie. either too steep, not enough railings, etc. The solution to make it a planting bed is clearly a compromise, one that I think will have ongoing maintenance issues. The smooth surface of the concrete...
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    Toronto Crosstown LRT: Leaside Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | IBI Group

    Did they just throw topsoil on top of the concrete steps? If so then it won't be long until the topsoil washes away and the old steps re-emerge... I assume that's why it's grasses and there isn't a single tree planted.
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    Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

    I like a lot of that in principle, and am all for making it safer for pedestrians and cyclists. One drawback I could see is that it would likely push more commuters to Queen which would add more left turns delaying 2 busier streetcar lines (501, 504) at that ramp. Perhaps a light could be...
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    Baycrest Park Improvements

    It seems like this is just the phase 1 build out right? I don't see a timeline for the full build out which appears to require the removal of the Highway on-ramp to allow for the new road to connect to Neptune Road. Unless there's an agreement in place with MTO, I would think that this won't...
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    Would make sense, and once you got that far you could extend it to Weston along Lawrence West. Becomes a good transfer point for anyone coming off the Kitchener Line as well as anyone from North York/Scarborough wanting to go to the airport with the UP.
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    Toronto Bike Share

    So the expanded station at Queen and Pape has some issues. They added a second row of docks in front of the original row. But if the front row is full of bikes you now need to lift a bike over the handlebars of the docked bikes to dock your bike. I witnessed someone struggle doing this the...
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    Toronto Ontario Line: Riverside-Leslieville Station | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | HDR

    Not here to argue about tunnel vs. rail corridor but just want to point out that the clearing that we've seen in the last few weeks is not for the Ontario line but for the expansion of GO RER. Ontario Line is to be on the west side of the rail corridor and as far as I can see those trees have...
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    Toronto Elevate at Logan | 16.76m | 4s | Kaleido | SRN Architects Inc.

    There appears to have been no movement on this site since end of September. There's no longer any construction equipment on site, they've removed the porta-potties, but the road is still blocked off. Anyone have any insight into what's going on here?
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    Mississauga Hurontario-Main Line 10 LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    Absolutely they can agree to making payments earlier but unfortunately agreeing to an adjusted schedule is never that black and white. There are thousands of other things that could be delaying the project unrelated to this design change and when all those things are happening at once it's...
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    Mississauga Hurontario-Main Line 10 LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    Agreed that this is a very informative piece. With regards to your comment about how the addition of 75M of additional track could cost that much, it actually probably isn't far off. With the way these P3 contracts are designed any changes to work that isn't in the initial scope will come at a...
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    Finch West Line 6 LRT

    Shout out to Martin GROOVE at 4:45 mark of the drone video haha
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    I don't know this for sure but I saw it happening as well. My speculation was that it is being done in anticipation of the repairs being done to the Don trail, that section of trail is very narrow so maybe it's being removed to allow for the trail to be marginally widened? That's assuming that...

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